Pierre Clémenti
Date of birth: 1942-09-28
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel. In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage. He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Clémenti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Belle de Jour
1967-05-24
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd
Sweet Movie
1974-06-12
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and end
The Austrian
1990-09-19
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering fro
The Conformist
1971-01-29
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of h
Little Lips
1978-02-08
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case o
The Milky Way
1969-02-28
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way
Partner
1968-10-25
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Hard to Be a God
1990-01-25
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history
Quartet
1981-10-25
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a stra
Zoo zéro
1979-05-09
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approac
Pigsty
1969-09-02
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is conde
Steppenwolf
1974-12-18
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Hall
The Red Poster
1976-11-10
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and
Le Pont du Nord
1982-03-24
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. I
Adorable Liar
1962-02-02
Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fia
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968-01-12
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aun
The Virgin's Bed
1969-05-14
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no
Stridura
1980-01-01
In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen t
Necropolis
1970-11-01
Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
1986-01-01
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Sp
Enchanted Isles
1965-03-15
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had su
Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
1970-12-20
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, ac
The Year of the Cannibals
1969-08-23
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No o
Cutting Heads
1970-10-16
In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldor
Les Jours et les Nuits
2021-11-19
I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola),
How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965-04-12
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty i
Wheel of Ashes
1968-08-01
A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides
Un film porno
1968-01-01
After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an appe
De quoi s'agit-il?
1974-01-01
The Idols
1968-06-14
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press
The Brunette and Me
1981-04-29
A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock sta
The Pacifist
1970-12-30
A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being
Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories
1985-01-02
The chronicle of two Moroccan families between 1912 and 1956, in the colonial era. A university prof
Pop' game
1968-02-01
Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors.
Listen, Let's Make Love
1968-09-13
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his
The Inner Scar
1972-02-02
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
1968-12-31
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.
Hideous Kinky
1999-02-05
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Moro
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990-01-22
Nightmare
1980-12-24
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidd
Massacres
1991-03-27
A European man sets up a business in Korea to deal in snuff films. The police quickly catch on to hi
Exposed
1983-04-22
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes
Brigade Anti Gangs
1966-08-18
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him
Shock Troops
1967-04-05
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently t
Les Bargasses
1965-05-05
A film by Marc'o
A Christmas Carol
1984-12-25
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner
Lamiel
1967-08-30
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sans
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
1983-12-28
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also
Clash
1984-02-08
A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by
The Hips of J.W.
1997-10-29
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in rea
Quartet
1981-10-25
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a stra
His Day of Glory
1969-01-01
A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a p
Visa de censure n° X
1976-07-02
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the
The Fall of the House of Usher
1981-04-12
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Up
La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur
1982-04-24
Chassé-croisé
1982-03-24
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine a
The Leopard
1963-03-27
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g
Chromo sud
1968-01-01
One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground
Homeo
1967-11-15
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality
New Old
1979-11-21
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from mor
The Sun
1988-12-01
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Itali
The Irony of Chance
1974-04-30
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened
La deuxième femme
2008-11-30
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting fr
Paris s'en va
1981-01-25
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He wor
Edith's Diary
1983-09-01
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son
Dog Day
1984-01-10
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his poss
Brückenschläge
1983-01-01
L'amour des femmes
1982-02-13
Geneva, 1980s. Three friends in search of themselves. Bruno, an architect, is married to a woman he
Renaissance
1970-04-21
A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this ti
The Son of Amir Is Dead
1975-01-02
Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, h
The Sorceror's Apprentice
1977-09-28
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy ab
The Song of Roland
1978-10-04
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-centur
La famille
1971-03-21
A film by Yvan Lagrange.
Les Frangines
1960-02-10
The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to th
Crush Proof
1972-06-04
A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United Sta
Autoportrait d’un schizophrène
1977-01-01
A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.
Jupiter
1971-03-05
The Silent Woman
1989-01-01
French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.
Heads and Tales
1967-11-15
Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very
The Designated Victim
1971-04-22
Stefano Augenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepol
Book of Saints of Eternal Rome
1968-12-21
A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them togeth
The Man Who Laughs
1966-08-20
This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with th
Pop Age
1966-01-01
Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press c
Souvenirs souvenirs
2008-11-30
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
Positano
2008-11-30
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for
Jack of Spades
1960-12-21
After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises b
Attendre le navire
1992-01-01
The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two love
Rapt ou la Séparation des races
1984-01-01
Madame Sourdis
1979-12-31
Antenna
1970-11-30
Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the indiv
Manon Roland
1989-12-28
The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
1966-01-01
11 testaments
1983-01-01
The vogue for video wills being all the rage in the United States, the 'I Am' team asked celebrated
Flore et Blancheflore
1961-12-24
Flore is the son of a king, Blancheflore the daughter of a slave. The two children grow up together
Pierre Clémenti, l'absolue liberté
2013-01-21
Marc'O, Philippe Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jackie Raynal and others retrace the life and work of actor, f
The Infernal Machine
1963-10-01
A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus.